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Your favorite surprising connections in mathematics

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Mathematical "urban legends"

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Most helpful heuristic?

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What can't be described by categories?

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What is convolution intuitively?

answered Nov 18, 2009 at 1:41

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How do I convert a uniform value in [0,1) to a standard normal (Gaussian) distribution value?

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A good book of functional analysis

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Mathematics and cancer research

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Given several beta distributions, what is the probability that one is the highest?

answered Mar 6, 2012 at 14:02

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What does log convexity mean?

answered Jan 3, 2011 at 23:03

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"Uniform probability" on a set of naturals

answered Nov 24, 2010 at 2:32

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Why isn't likelihood a probability density function?

answered Jan 6, 2010 at 22:52

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What's an efficient way to calculate covariance for a large data set?

answered Nov 18, 2009 at 20:44

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Mathematical podcasts/audio

answered Oct 25, 2009 at 21:09

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Describe a topic in one sentence.

answered Oct 25, 2009 at 1:49

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Finding minimal or canonical expressions for Boolean truth tables

answered Nov 10, 2009 at 23:10

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When are probability distributions completely determined by their moments?

answered Oct 31, 2009 at 12:14

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The factorials of -1, -2, -3, …

answered Dec 30, 2009 at 15:06

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How does an academic mathematician educate him/herself about job opportunities outside academia?

answered Oct 27, 2010 at 12:28

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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting

answered Dec 22, 2018 at 16:17

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Examples of improved notation that impacted research?

answered May 23, 2020 at 18:56

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A good reference to grok hypergeometric functions?

answered Jun 22, 2012 at 23:21

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What are Central Limit Theorems and why are they called so?

answered Oct 29, 2010 at 17:25

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Numerical integration over 2D disk

answered Jun 19, 2010 at 2:10

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Are there other nice math books close to the style of Tristan Needham?

answered Jul 14, 2010 at 18:22

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Finding the new zeros of a "perturbed" polynomial

answered Nov 23, 2009 at 18:09

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Good books on theory of distributions

answered Jul 21, 2010 at 12:47

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Cocktail party math

answered Nov 13, 2009 at 23:01

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Harmonic mean of random variables

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Mathematicians with both “very abstract” and “very applied” achievements

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Your favorite surprising connections in mathematics

Mathematical "urban legends"

Most helpful heuristic?

What can't be described by categories?

What is convolution intuitively?

How do I convert a uniform value in [0,1) to a standard normal (Gaussian) distribution value?

A good book of functional analysis

Mathematics and cancer research

Given several beta distributions, what is the probability that one is the highest?

What does log convexity mean?

"Uniform probability" on a set of naturals

Why isn't likelihood a probability density function?

What's an efficient way to calculate covariance for a large data set?

Mathematical podcasts/audio

Describe a topic in one sentence.

Finding minimal or canonical expressions for Boolean truth tables

When are probability distributions completely determined by their moments?

The factorials of -1, -2, -3, …

How does an academic mathematician educate him/herself about job opportunities outside academia?

Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting

Examples of improved notation that impacted research?

A good reference to grok hypergeometric functions?

What are Central Limit Theorems and why are they called so?

Numerical integration over 2D disk

Are there other nice math books close to the style of Tristan Needham?

Finding the new zeros of a "perturbed" polynomial

Good books on theory of distributions

Cocktail party math

Harmonic mean of random variables

Mathematicians with both “very abstract” and “very applied” achievements